Washington Independent Review of Books

Alan Taylor won the first of his two Pulitzers for turning a rich cache of family papers into William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, a penetrating account of frontier land development in Upstate New York. In

Our fourth-annual BIPOC Scholarship will allow you to attend the 2027 Washington Writers Conference — the DC area’s premier publishing-focused event — for free! Five scholarships will be awarded.

Applicants must be 18...

In the most haunting mysteries, every answer compounds the tragedy at the heart of the story, and by the time the truth comes to light, understanding how the damage was done only makes everything worse. In Robyn Gigl’s propulsive new novel, All We Hide, Lieutenant Laure...

Homelessness can impact anyone. Unfortunately, no matter what our job or economic status may be, we are all a setback or two away from crisis. The nonprofit Friendship Place believes that our unhoused neighbors are just that — neighbors who deserve our support in difficult times. I...

By now, every author has received at least one fawning pitch from a random stranger describing the life-changing wonder of their book and offering to help them with it somehow. And we’ve all certainly had our books pirated to train the vast LLMs. But now for something completely different…

A few days ago, our stalwart editor-in-chief, Holly Smith, received a chipper l...